Evelyn now is viewed as a resident of Forest Lawns Care Home but she is more than the mere color of her shirt, the lovely lipstick, or her glowing personality and charm.
'Liese -1951' carries great significance and so too did the suitcases, clothing, and WWII memorabilia from that time-a time of great uncertainty and civil unrest.
It was a time of horror, of fear, of the unknown and yet Evelyn continued to write letters to her faithful husband Hugh.
Why?
Why was this horrific time frame etched in her memory after all these years?
Hugh sadly passed in 1943 but his time on Earth was never forgotten. Neither were those who lost their lives because they all died with one common denominator.
Steve aka Colonel Stephen Robinson is a man we came to love to hate. That animosity boiled over into ever sentence.
Yet, it was a power struggle, deeply encoded, horribly entrenched, eloquently written.
That moment when everything changes is the moment that you cannot take back.
It's that piece of time that alters the course of future events for the sake of one's own piece of mind.
Evelyn did what she felt she had to do when facing such grave consequences and who could truly blame her for having that feeling, that need, the thought that burying her pain was all she could do.
So, with this noted Kingsley forest is forever etched in memory as 'the place' but she thought nobody would uncover the truth.
She never knew Pat -niece-would uncover a photo-that photo-as she was so careful and meticulous in safe guarding her secrets including burning all those letters in the shoebox.
However, the tin, the biscuit tin, with that small girl and her red ball....
I love this...as you can tell and Suzanne did a magnificent job in detailing it all, with precision, and class.
Thank you to Suzanne, the pub Bookouture, NetGalley, and Amazon Kindle for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.
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